The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

书名：The Age of Surveillance CapitalismTheFightfortheFutureattheNewFrontierofPower
作者：ShoshanaZuboff
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ISBN：9781781256848
出版社：PublicAffairs
出版时间：2019-1-15
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：704
豆瓣评分： 8.1

书籍简介：

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit–at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future–if we let it.

作者简介：

Shoshana Zuboff is an American author and scholar. She is the author of the books In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power and The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism, co-authored with James Maxmin.

书友短评：

@ 北辰 作为学术著作的话，我个人不太喜欢这种檄文式的观点呈现和论证风格，感觉如果倾注太多个人讨伐式的态度不利于阐述和论证观点并令人信服。核心论点并不新颖，但在提出的“监视资本主义”极其相关的一套概念下面能够把很多经典理论编织进来自圆其说其实已经非常不错了，有一些描述和定义也很有趣，从不同角度分析几大互联网巨头一步步蚕食个人自由驯化个人行为的过程也非常细致清晰。总体而言本书仍未跳出老生常谈的西式论调，创造再… 作为学术著作的话，我个人不太喜欢这种檄文式的观点呈现和论证风格，感觉如果倾注太多个人讨伐式的态度不利于阐述和论证观点并令人信服。核心论点并不新颖，但在提出的“监视资本主义”极其相关的一套概念下面能够把很多经典理论编织进来自圆其说其实已经非常不错了，有一些描述和定义也很有趣，从不同角度分析几大互联网巨头一步步蚕食个人自由驯化个人行为的过程也非常细致清晰。总体而言本书仍未跳出老生常谈的西式论调，创造再多新的概念，本质依然是个人自由和民主的问题，其实不如揭露本质来得实在清晰。包括此书在内，很多学者都喜欢把当代出现的一些问题写作“前所未有”，于是呼吁关注呼吁警惕，其实它们与几千年来的经典社会议题一脉相承，没必要过分强调这种新颖和断裂性。以及书最后又把救命稻草指定给民主和民主机构，实在是，无力吐槽… @ Luka brilliant。女神！ @ Eudaimonia 竟然（最后1.5倍速）听完了！全程大量时间在走神，要是读大概也是读不下去，听的时候都觉得作者怎么反反复复都在说差不多的事情，主要就是how surveillance capitalists take advantage of behavioral surplus+警示公众关注"Who knows? Who decides? Who decides who decides?”。鉴于是相对早的对大数据… 竟然（最后1.5倍速）听完了！全程大量时间在走神，要是读大概也是读不下去，听的时候都觉得作者怎么反反复复都在说差不多的事情，主要就是how surveillance capitalists take advantage of behavioral surplus+警示公众关注"Who knows? Who decides? Who decides who decides?”。鉴于是相对早的对大数据时代的警世“预言”还是四星吧。缺点是作者是观点先行的op-ed写法，对于这么厚一本疑似/可以是理论书的书来讲比较没有说服力。 @ 周发发 剩余价值的概念已经够累赘了，非要在此基础上发挥就更牵强了。除了sensationalize实在不是一个有效优美的阐释框架，虽然作者有比肩韦伯涂尔干的野心，但基本上只能当史料书翻翻。。。 @ 黄小邪 过誉，not very original，避重就轻，缺乏“监控资本主义”造成的阶层与族群更深隔绝视角，依然在“个体自由”与“西方民主”框架下，即有局限，也比较cliched。 其中很多问题已被Zygmunt Bauman and David Lyon更深刻地讨论过。 @ 千寻 很重要的一本书 但是写太长太繁琐 @ George 非常重要的书 美中不足是写的太长 但不给高分不足以突出其重要 @ Luka brilliant。女神！ @ 河 Zuboff’s language can be unnecessarily complex, hindering comprehension. But by writing this book she is engaging in an important fight at the very frontier of power, for a human future, hence its sig… Zuboff’s language can be unnecessarily complex, hindering comprehension. But by writing this book she is engaging in an important fight at the very frontier of power, for a human future, hence its significance. @ 阿斯巴甜 读完才明白这本网红体质大作是怎么被作者生生带歪的了。实践证明，清奇文风绝对是硬伤，再严谨的概念定义，再详实的罗陈论证，也架不住作者每章以诗歌开头，全篇坚持用论文式语言循环往复地写…作为哈佛商学院最早拿tenure的女教授，Zuboff跨学科的功底尤其是形而上思考确实强，新概念的提出看得出也并不是为迎合受众，至少从文献综述到个人情感再到哲学反思都是饱满的…然而缺点也在于此，文风太自high，太曲… 读完才明白这本网红体质大作是怎么被作者生生带歪的了。实践证明，清奇文风绝对是硬伤，再严谨的概念定义，再详实的罗陈论证，也架不住作者每章以诗歌开头，全篇坚持用论文式语言循环往复地写…作为哈佛商学院最早拿tenure的女教授，Zuboff跨学科的功底尤其是形而上思考确实强，新概念的提出看得出也并不是为迎合受众，至少从文献综述到个人情感再到哲学反思都是饱满的…然而缺点也在于此，文风太自high，太曲高和寡了

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